(“Street Painting #5″ by Lang/Baumann,  Verocin,  Switzerland,  2010. Photograph by Robert Hofer)

Every summer the small Swiss town of Vercorin offers up its public spaces and buildings to artists to make do with them what they will. R&Art, the association behind the initiative,  commissions contemporary works that seek to engage the village as a whole in an effort to reconcile Vercorin’s history and traditions with contemporary culture. Lang/Baumann‘s “Street Painting #5″ is a stunning testament to the strength of the villagers’ goal to create “spaces for dialogues in synch with our times.” (Architizer)